Grade 3 Language Arts (Reading, Writing, and Language Use) Friday Mini-Lessons are always to address specific needs that come up during conferencing or during the week’s mini-lessons Reading Assessment is ongoing A weekly blog entry is required (writing/technology integration)
Month
Reading
Calendar
Writing
Calendar
Language Usage (possible mini lessons)
Notes to Teacher
Sept.
Procedures
Reading Workshop components
Read Aloud
Mini-Lesson
Guided Reading
Independent Reading
Shared reading
Reading Conference
Free Reading
Reading Response Journal
Building reading stamina
Running records + Levelling
Launching a productive writing workshop
Procedures
Writer’s Notebook
Mini-Lessons
Guided writing
Independent writing
Writing conference (2 stars 1 wish)
Author’s Chair
Writing Folders+ the writing process
Brainstorming for ideas Making a list Writing prompt
Types of sentences
Subject & predicate Punctuation (Capitals, end of sentences)
Assessment in reading, writing
Curriculum Night for parents
Oct.
Building reading stamina Schema
-Activating prior knowledge
-Making Connections (text àself, text à text, textàworld)
-Distinguish between relevant and non-relevant connections Reading Strategies: Making predictions Story elements Summarizing (Reading Response Journal)
Raising the quality of narrative writing (personal narrative focus) Parts of a personal narrative Graphic organizers 6+1 mini lessons (stress on ideas and organization) Writing lead, paragraphs, and ending (Ralph Fletcher mini lessons)
Fiction – different genres according to child’s choice +Plot, setting, character development(traits),
Adverbs Suffixes and prefixes
Mar./Apr.
Creating Mental Images
-Activating all 6 senses
-Enhancing comprehension
-Create interpretations (images) of text- Reading response Journal
-Transfer images to writing
-Adapting images (to others’ and to changing text)
Writing poetry – Free form heart poems concrete I am from Colors Colors of Christmas (December Writing) I am Thankful for (Acrostic- October writing) 6+1 enhancing Word choice
Review Adjectives and adverbs
Similes and metaphores
Celebration Day April 30 (Poetry Café) Technology Integration
Progress Reports 2
May/June
Synthesizing
-Monitoring overall meaning
-Evolving our thinking as we read and reread
-Using retelling to help synthesize
-Using synthesis to build understanding (text, characters, author’s purpose)
Content area writing and independent writing projects (Social Studies integration... Creating a museum book about celebrations, wiki page research about multicultural country/powerpoint)
Pronouns
Possessive nouns
Field Day: May 21 Learning Celebration (multicultural/technology/writing celebration) Last Day: June 27, Report Cards out
Friday Mini-Lessons are always to address specific needs that come up during conferencing or during the week’s mini-lessons
Reading Assessment is ongoing
A weekly blog entry is required (writing/technology integration)
Calendar
Calendar
Reading Workshop components
Building reading stamina
Running records + Levelling
- Procedures
- Writer’s Notebook
- Mini-Lessons
- Guided writing
- Independent writing
- Writing conference (2 stars 1 wish)
- Author’s Chair
- Writing Folders+ the writing process
Brainstorming for ideasMaking a list
Writing prompt
Subject & predicate
Punctuation (Capitals, end of sentences)
Curriculum Night for parents
Schema
-Activating prior knowledge
-Making Connections
(text àself, text à text, textàworld)
-Distinguish between relevant and non-relevant connections
Reading Strategies: Making predictions
Story elements
Summarizing (Reading Response Journal)
Parts of a personal narrative
Graphic organizers
6+1 mini lessons (stress on ideas and organization)
Writing lead, paragraphs, and ending (Ralph Fletcher mini lessons)
Common nouns
Proper nouns
Plural nouns (s, es, ies)+irregular plural
Quotation marks
Commas
Capitalizing Titles
Halloween Celebration
-Before, during, after reading
-to predict
-to clarify meaning
-to interpret text
Story elements
6+1 (Word choice and developing voice)
(Past tense – add ed, change y to ied, double final consonant, be, do, have, main and helping verbs)
-Differences between fiction and non-fiction
-Text features and organization
-Locating specific information.
Reading Skills mini lessons
Paragraph with main ideas and supporting details.
Sentence Fluency
Adjectives that compare
Superlatives
Comma use in listing
Christmas Break Dec. 21-Jan.7
1st Report Cards (January)
Parent teacher conferences
-Determining meaning of unknown words
-Making predictions & confirming them
-Use prior knowledge and text to infer meanings
+Plot, setting, character development(traits),
Suffixes and prefixes
-Activating all 6 senses
-Enhancing comprehension
-Create interpretations (images) of text- Reading response Journal
-Transfer images to writing
-Adapting images (to others’ and to changing text)
Free form
heart poems
concrete
I am from
Colors
Colors of Christmas (December Writing)
I am Thankful for (Acrostic- October writing)
6+1 enhancing Word choice
Similes and metaphores
(Poetry Café)
Technology Integration
Progress Reports 2
-Monitoring overall meaning
-Evolving our thinking as we read and reread
-Using retelling to help synthesize
-Using synthesis to build understanding (text, characters, author’s purpose)
(Social Studies integration... Creating a museum book about celebrations, wiki page research about multicultural country/powerpoint)
Possessive nouns
Learning Celebration (multicultural/technology/writing celebration)
Last Day: June 27, Report Cards out